it's being detected as a virus, hell, not even just by defender, but my BROWSER won't let me download it. any reason to why it would be detected as such? -edit- in fact, it detects it as soon as the browser asks me where to download it to, the CACHE of something with the download is detected as a virus.
Hello. It is a false positive. It is detected as a virus for a number of reasons. I don't really know the exact issue, but one of the reasons is that it is an independent program which is not signed by microsoft, which costs money. Another reason could maybe be the compiler (currently using clang++). I think it should not be flagged as much if it was compiled with MSVC (microsoft's compiler). This latest version is digitally self signed by me, which seems to make Galaxy Engine not being flagged as a virus in more computers. But it seems that some browsers or computers still detect it as malware. I actually encourage you to do reverse engineering if you want to check for any bad signs. Also, the project is completely open source, so you can compile the code yourself if you don't trust the executable.
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it's being detected as a virus, hell, not even just by defender, but my BROWSER won't let me download it. any reason to why it would be detected as such?
-edit-
in fact, it detects it as soon as the browser asks me where to download it to, the CACHE of something with the download is detected as a virus.
Hello. It is a false positive. It is detected as a virus for a number of reasons. I don't really know the exact issue, but one of the reasons is that it is an independent program which is not signed by microsoft, which costs money. Another reason could maybe be the compiler (currently using clang++). I think it should not be flagged as much if it was compiled with MSVC (microsoft's compiler). This latest version is digitally self signed by me, which seems to make Galaxy Engine not being flagged as a virus in more computers. But it seems that some browsers or computers still detect it as malware. I actually encourage you to do reverse engineering if you want to check for any bad signs. Also, the project is completely open source, so you can compile the code yourself if you don't trust the executable.